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Ui Imar -Viking Ireland

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Important Surnames relevant to this Project: Cremeen,Fitzpatrick,Harnett,Mart,Barnett,Boring,Logan,MacAulie/y,Danaher,O’Brien, Scandinavian countries influenced outside regions the most. "The Danish Vikings went to England, while the Swedish Vikings went to the Baltic and the Norwegian Vikings went to Ireland, Iceland, and Greenland. The Norse–Gaels (Gall-Goídil; Irish: Gall-Ghaeil; Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture. Part of this Project is the study of the relationship of project members to memebers of the Ui Imar Dynasty In 960, Cammán is recorded in the Annals of Ulster as being defeated at a place named Dub.[Cammán's opponent in the battle is not mentioned, and according to Clare Downham, the placename Dub seems incomplete, since there are many places in Ireland with this Gaelic element (which means "dark"). Several locations have been suggested. For example: Edmund Hogan identified it with Black River, in Rosclougher, County Leitrim; and Diarmuid Ó Murchadha identified it with the Munster Blackwater.[ Downham identified Cammán as a son of Amlaíb mac Gofraid (d.941). Downham noted that Cammán's name is Gaelic,[and that Colmán Etchingham suggested that his name may be a diminutive form of the Gaelic camm, which means "crooked".Downham stated that Cammán, therefore, may be identical to Sitriuc Cam, who is recorded in the annals around the same time. Great Danish Army or the Viking Great Army, was a coalition of Scandinavian warriors, mainly Danish but including warriors from Norway and Sweden, who invaded England in 865 AD. Since the late 8th century, the Vikings had engaged in raids on centres of wealth such as monasteries. The Great Heathen Army was much larger and aimed to occupy and conquer the four English kingdoms of East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex.